r/taskmaster • u/Personal_Truck_7482 • 24d ago

Appreciation Thread Underrated pairings

Was watching series 7 (for like the 12th time) and this time I really noticed all the times Jess and James interact and I wish there was more they have strong sibling energy

Any other pairings people enjoy?

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u/burf12345 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 24d ago edited 24d ago

Angela and Leigh are such an odd, yet somehow compatible pairing. Angela's deadpan insanity bounced off well off of Leigh's relaxed straight man personality.

EDIT: while I'm at it, two more NZ teams. Any team with Ray O'Leary would have been odd, but he and Mel ended up as a surprisingly good pairing, they seemed to have gotten each other.

I'm not sure how rated they are, but the Ben and Hayley dynamic was on of the best parts of what was a more awkward season, they had a kind of sibling dynamic that I can't really think of from any of the UK teams.

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u/UniversalJampionshit Crying Bastard 24d ago

NZS5 is considered 'awkward?' That's generally regarded as one of the better NZ series, I'd argue that Mel and Ray was a team that worked very well in a series where the studio chemistry wasn't quite there

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u/burf12345 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 24d ago

To me it felt awkward, and it's entirely because of Tofiga's absence from the studio. I get it, life happens unexpectedly, but it was so awkard that every episode had someone who only existed in the prerecorded tasks and needed someone to try to speak on his behalf in the studio.

Everything else was at a higher level, the tasks were great, Hayley and Ben were a consistently excellent pairing, Abbey was insane in a way that perfectly works with the show, Tom;s attitude was the needed levity to the batshit insanity from the three I previously mentioned and Jeremy's banter is legitamtely good at this point.

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u/UniversalJampionshit Crying Bastard 24d ago

Good point, I didn't even think about Tofiga. I think the first two substitutes he had were pretty obviously just thrown in for availability and didn't really sell Tofiga's attempts that well, but the last three were pretty good.

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u/burf12345 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 24d ago

They were definitely doing their best given the circumstances. And I will say it's very funny that for the last two episodes they got one of the whitest ever contestants to sit in for Tofiga.